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Monday, February 22, 2016

Our friend Nellie

Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me! Well, I'm back!Poppy is off work on weekends now and is counting down the weeks until retirement...just last night he said, seven weeks to go, Mel. Seven more!! He plans to work part time...maybe three days a week.

no reason at all for this picture, other than I just like it. Poppy hung the laundry basket on a nail on the pantry door to make room for

this heavy pan of sweet potatoes. Our friend Nellie popped in Saturday evening at the edge of dark. Nellie is a character! I know where we can get a bushel of the best sweet potatoes you've ever tasted...for $18.00. Oh my goodness, I would LOVE to buy some. You want to split a bushel, she asked.

I just might go on tonight and get us a bushel, she said. See you later! Wait, let me give you some money. Nah, she said, just wait. We said our goodbyes and she backed out of the driveway...but wait, the dogs were barking again, it was Nellie back up on the front porch...here, she said. I meant to give you this pack of coconut cookies. Get you a glass of cold milk and eat a couple. They're good! That's Nellie!

Less than an hour later Nellie was back with the potatoes. Get you a box she hollered from the car, I ain't got time to come back in. There a man up near Littleton who makes his own country sausage, $3.00 a pound. I ain't even going to stop at my house, just going on up there and see if he has any. Nellie called me later to say she bought his last three packs.Nellie is truly a character!! The most free-hearted person you'll ever meet! Don't know exactly Nellie's age but probably in her early 80's. Nellie lives alone in a small older mobile home...totally surrounded with arbors and vines, and flowers and old buildings with chickens and geese and turkeys and peacocks. Goats in the front yard and rabbits in cages. She loves animals. Nellie has an old beat up pick-up truck that she drives for hauling stuff....there is a plastic dove wired to each side mirror on the truck. Nellie goes to town every Friday to buy groceries, and pick up feed for her animals...fifty pound bags of feed that she still unloads herself. Amazing!

Since I did not reply to the much appreciated comments on my last post...Karen at wyndsonfarm.blogspot.com , you may have been right about a couple of Jewel's chicks being roosters. Out of the eight that she hatched, two, plus little Jewel herself, disappeared. Snatched away, probably by a fox, poor chicks. It's still rare that six turned out to be hens, don't you think? Plus the one chick she hatched earlier in the spring is a hen too. All the hens have started laying and I'm getting around a dozen eggs a day!Had more to tell you, but friends, I have simply got to get busy. Time is flying! The floors need vacuuming, and the kitchen needs mopping...there are clothes washing, and clothes in the dryer, and another load on the floor...oh well...hope to be back soon!Love,Henny

47 comments:

Aren't neighbours like that a gem. I think my gran was a lot like that in her day. She was a mover and a shaker. lol You must be enjoying all those fresh eggs everyday. I'd love that but I question whether it is smart for us to get chickens next year as we have wild-life roaming around such as fox and raccoon and the odd coyote. It would break my heart if they were taken in the night. Loved visiting again, Henny and I love the last photo. Those men are such softies. lol Deb

What a wonderful neighbour Nellie is, and what a character! We love sweet potatoes here, especially the white ones, and are eating many more of the 'sweets' than the ordinary ones. I use them in different recipes, as well as just eating them plain.Poppy really is a softy under that 'tough' exterior:), but it would be pretty hard to resist that cuteness. Congrats on his almost retirement, just think of all the projects you can get him to do for you, wink wink:)Hope you get a chance to check out the cute donkeys on my next to last post, I was thinking of you when I was visiting them!

Love that first photo too! Your home is just so cozy and inviting...like stepping back into the past. I have a cabinet very similar to the one in your post...minus all of the decorative wood oh the door. It has been in my family since I can remember. Nellie sounds like a real gem! Love sweet potatoes too :)

It sounds like we could all benefit from a neighbor like Nellie, what a trooper !80 years young, and plodding through life with such zest, I could use a little of her spirit and fight right now :)Sweet potatoes look good, will you bake them ?I love the warm and cozy look of your home Henny, so inviting.......We share a love of "old" :)Hugs,~Jo

awww how sweet Poppy feeding baby Rosie. I know you will be glad to have him retired and home with you more. I love sweet potatoes I have some left where I bought back in October. We love getting sausage at Key's Packing they have some great sausage. Love you bunches!

I just love folk like that dont have a care in the world and are soo kind . People like this Nellie make me smile . Oh glad to hear Poppy will be retiring soon wish Papa here was I would love to spend more time each day with him doing stuff . Thanks for sharing lovely photos . Have a good day !

I have to say Nellie sounds like quite the wonderful neighbor! A real country gem! Those sweet potatoes look amazing - no blemishes at all, they must be lovely. Sad about Jewel and her two chicks - I think it's good I don't keep chickens any longer, it's too hard for me when something happens to them. I get free eggs from my sweetie's neighbor across the road - he gets about a dozen eggs per day and just gives them away! I'm ok with that - it was quiche for dinner tonight again!

These really are the prettiest sweet potatoes I have ever seen. Sure hope to get more when these are gone. I know what you mean about losing chickens...and it does happen. I get all sad too. I've never made a quiche! And have all these eggs! Thank you! I'm going to find a recipe today!

Henny Penny

About Henny Penny

I love a farm. I love animals. I enjoy crafting and sewing. I make and sell old fashioned bonnets, aprons and dolls. I love being at home, gardening,and caring for the animals on our small hobby farm. Cooking is not a big love of mine however, I manage to get a meal cooked and on the table every evening. I do enjoy setting the table and sitting down to a meal. I simply like 'old fashioned'!